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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 2/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Contents Opportunities and Threats in 2010 Liquidity: Engineered funds Credit-Spreads: TOPS funds Inflation risk: Inflation-linked funds Appendix

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 3/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Opportunities and Threats in 2010

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 4/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Risk/Return Factors in the Fixed Income Asset Class maturity yield credit risk premium liquidity premium real yield inflation premium

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 5/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. De-leveraging process has just started Source: Arbor Research

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 6/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Housing market – back to normality? Source: San Francisco Fed

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 7/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. U.S.A. – Federal Reserve Assets Have Almost Tripled Last data point: 31.03.2010Source: Datastream, Credit Suisse / IDC

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 8/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Long Live the Carry Trade! Source: Arbor Research

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 9/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Social Security Trust Funds – Buying nothing but U.S. Treasuries Source: SocialSecurityOnline

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 10/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. U.S. Treasury Bonds Held by Official Institutions Last data point: 31.12.2009Source: Datastream, Credit Suisse / IDC

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 11/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Biggest Part of Budget Deficits in Europe is Structural Source: OECD, Credit Suisse

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 12/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. EMU Sovereigns – Indebtedness relative to GDP (%) Source: Credit Suisse, Datastream %

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 13/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. China – Rapid Growth of Monetary Aggregates and Loan Volumes Last data point: 26.02.2010Source: Datastream, Credit Suisse / IDC %

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 14/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Inflation will Remain Tame in the Short Run Source: Arbor Research

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 15/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Source: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse / IDCLast data point: 02.04.2010 Expected Changes of Money Market Rates for the Next 12 Months in bp

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 16/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Opportunities and Threats for 2010 Interest Rates – Interest rates are generally on a low level – risk of a sudden rise – Very steep yield curves mean high opportunity cost of capital – Considerable risks in sovereign bonds (Dubai, Greece,…) Flexibility of chosen strategy is important (liquidity!) Credit-Spreads – Economic recovery helps – what happens when government stimulus gets withdrawn? – Credit spreads are still at historically attractive levels Focus needs to be on issuer selection Inflation – No immediate threat – Expansionary monetary policy and rising sovereign debts pose significant risks in the longer term Inflation risk is not sufficiently discounted by the market

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 17/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Liquidity: Engineered Funds

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 19/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Synthetic Money Market and Portable Alpha Portable Alpha Strategy – To enhance this money market return, a small part of the fund (5% to 10%) is invested in a portable alpha strategy – This strategy is a mechanical equity index arbitrage strategy which invests in single stocks subject to corporate events (e.g. inclusions/exclusions from an index) and hedges the systematic equity risk with index futures – This means that the fund doesn't have any systematic equity risk, only a small additional volatility coming from the excess returns of the portable alpha strategy Synthetic money market – Cash is invested in a diversified equity portfolio which is immediately sold forward, so that the investor doesnt hold any equity market risk – The money market equivalent return comes from the interest rate implicit in the forward price

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 20/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk (incl. Counterparty Risk) Interest rate risk: Positioning with respect to the benchmark along the dimensions duration and curve Credit risk is implemented through index CDS (iTraxx) and single name sovereign CDS – Diversification – Liquidity – Credit risk can be quickly eliminated with low transaction costs Counterparty risk is – only a fraction of the notional exposure – diversified across several counterparties (best execution) – subject to limits – constantly monitored – actively managed

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 21/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Performance Credit Suisse Fund (Lux) Relative Return Engineered (Euro) Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved. Performance data does not include costs and commissions in connection with the purchase and redemption of fund units.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 22/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Performance Credit Suisse Fund (Lux) Relative Return Engineered (Euro), (net) Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved. Performance data does not include costs and commissions in connection with the purchase and redemption of fund units. NAV price in %

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 23/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Credit Spreads: TOPS Funds

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 24/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Risk-free curve Credit curve maturity yield Traditional Bond Fund TOPS Focus is on Credit Duration Source: Credit Suisse

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 25/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Credit Spreads USD – AAA to BBB (10 years) Last data point: 05.04.2010Source: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse / IDC in bp Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 26/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. CDS Spreads of Selected EU Countries vs the U.S. & U.K. Last data point: 02.04.2010Source: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse / IDC Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 27/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Enhanced flexibility without higher risk Target credit exposure LongShort 100% 30% 100% 30% 130 / 30 concept allows the fund to Maintain credit exposure @100% even when 30% of portfolio is hedged Take net short positions in individual names Increase long positions when credit spreads are expected to tighten materially BUT: No leverage on cash assets No short position overall possible (maximum hedge is 100%)

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 28/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Key Features Three return dimensions: interest rates, credit and currency Independent management of interest rate, credit and currency exposures Focus on risk control to achieve stable returns and minimize the probability of negative returns Target volatility: 1%-1.5% Modified duration: 0 to 3 Average rating: minimum A3/A- (single positions minimum Baa3/BBB-) Credit duration: 0 to 7

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 29/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Credit Suisse Bond Fund (Lux) TOPS US$ Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved. Performance data does not include costs and commissions in connection with the purchase and redemption of fund units.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 30/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. An Alternative to Reducing The Interest Rate Risk yield Real interest rate Breakeven inflation (= expected inflation + inflation risk premium) Nominal interest rate time Conventionally, the interest rate risk is reduced by shortening the overall duration of the portfolio (move from point A to B). The disadvantage is that the opportunity cost is high as both the real rate and breakeven curves are steep. The loss in carry is equal to be + r, be is the carry loss on the breakeven curve while r is the carry loss on the real rate curve. Alternatively, the interest rate risk can be diminished by reducing only the inflation risk, i.e. moving down the breakeven curve (move from point A to C) while maintaining the real interest rate risk constant at point A'. In that case, the loss in carry is equal to be. A B be A'A' r C

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 31/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Inflation Risk: Inflation Linked Funds

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 32/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. How do Inflation-Linked Bonds work? Nominal bonds react to movements in nominal interest rates independently from the source of the change, i.e. real rates or breakeven inflation. Real bonds (ILBs) react only to changes in real interest rates and are immune (protected) against changes in inflation expectations. yield Nominal rate Real rate Breakeven InflationBreakeven inflation Risk premium Expected inflation time

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 33/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Impact of an inflation shock on the bond markets Source: Barclays Capital Equity Gilt Study Investors erroneously believe they are conservatively invested with government bonds. This is true from a credit perspective, but not from a purchasing power point of view. The real return (adjusted for inflation) was disastrous for bond investors during the last inflationary period. US Treasuries returned -46.5% while UK Gilts lost -68.78%!

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 35/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Investors are not Properly Compensated for Long Term Inflation Risk Source: Bloomberg (24th March 2010) NAV price in %

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 36/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Source: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse / IDC Last data point: 23.03.2010

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 37/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Inflation swaps work like plain vanilla interest rate swaps: The fixed leg corresponds to average inflation expectations at inception of the contract. The floating leg is determined ex post by realized inflation Mechanism of Inflation Swaps Receive Inflation Pay Fixed

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 38/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Principal Pay Fixed Receive Inflation Nominal Coupon Bond + Inflation-Swap = Inflation-Linked Bond Synthetic Inflation Linked Bonds In the CHF product, we combine bonds denominated in CHF with swaps on European and US inflation. This represents a proxy hedge that works as long as inflation surprises in these markets are correlated with Swiss inflation

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 39/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. An Alternative to Reducing Interest Rate Risk yield Real interest rate Breakeven inflation (= expected inflation + inflation risk premium) Nominal interest rate time Conventionally, the interest rate risk is reduced by shortening the overall duration of the portfolio (move from point A to B). The disadvantage is that the opportunity cost is high as both the real rate and breakeven curves are steep. The loss in carry is equal to be + r, be is the carry loss on the breakeven curve while r is the carry loss on the real rate curve. Alternatively, the interest rate risk can be diminished by reducing only the inflation risk, i.e. moving down the breakeven curve (move from point A to C) while maintaining the real interest rate risk constant at point A'. In that case, the loss in carry is equal to be. A B be A'A' r C

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 40/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Source: OECD, Credit Suisse Difference of Inflation – Switzerland, France and the USA FranceUSA EMU (since 1998) Average -2.07%-1.17% -0.97% Standard Deviation3.46%2.55% 0.60% Correlation with Swiss Inflation 0.5 0.540.81

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 41/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Performance Credit Suisse Bond Fund (Lux) Inflation Linked EUR (net) Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved. Performance data does not include costs and commissions in connection with the purchase and redemption of fund units.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 42/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Peer Group Comparison Source: Credit Suisse Expected returns are no forecast or guarantee for future performance. There is no warranty that the expected return can be achieved. Performance data does not include costs and commissions in connection with the purchase and redemption of fund units.

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Produced by: APX Date: April 2010 Slide 43/46 Please see Important Information at the end of this material for important disclosures regarding the data and information contained and the views and opinions expressed in this material. Appendix

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